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Inside Higher Ed

The Value and the Values of College

In our forthcoming book, Getting Learning Right: The Promise of Higher Education (MIT Press), we share the results of a study that followed 20 Northeastern University students every semester from their first year through graduation. 
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Is work experience for all the key to graduate employability?

Boston’s Northeastern University has been running its own cooperative programme – full-time, months-long work experience undertaken while studying for a degree – for 117 years.
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Salem joins list of Mass. communities to reject surveillance company over data concerns

“The technology has some real positives for law enforcement,” Matt Ross, a professor of public policy and economics with expertise in policing at Northeastern University, told Boston.com. 
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Universities are out, AI is in under new Trump plan for science funding

Sam Scarpino did not read the report as a threat to funding at Northeastern University, where he’s the executive director of the Institute for Experiential AI. 
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Mapping Knowledge Across Time — finding order in the chaos of history

A review of a new book by Paul Kahn, a lecturer at Northeastern University. 
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Check Your Fridge: 19 Million Eggs Sold at Kroger and Other Stores Were Just Recalled

For those who are in possession of the contaminated eggs, Darin Detwiler, LP.D., associate professor of the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University, recommends first returning and discarding the eggs.
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Federal accountability for ICE has vanished. States must fill the void.

Op-ed by Deborah Ramirez, a senior adviser to Northeastern University School of Law’s Center for Law, Equity, and Race, and Max Reese, a research director at Northeastern’s Criminal Justice Task Force.
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Despite being disproportionately impacted by air pollution, many Gateway Cities don’t have state-run air quality monitors

From 2023 to 2025, scientists and engineers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with the city of Chelsea and the local non-profit GreenRoots, installed and monitored more than 80 air quality sensors across the city to better understand neighborhood-level air pollution. 
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Massachusetts communities spent opioid settlement money on stadium lights, rec center, police vehicle

5 Investigates teamed up with Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, submitting public records requests to every community in the state to see how they’ve used the money. 
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A SpaceX Rocket Part Is Expected to Smack Into the Moon in August, Highlighting the Growing Problem of Space Junk

“Infrastructure on the moon is currently sparse enough that we aren’t too worried about these kinds of uncontrolled impacts, but that will change in the future,” Anncy Thresher, a philosopher of science and applied ethicist at Northeastern University, says in a statement from the university. 
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10 Foods That Food Safety Experts Never Eat

“You cannot adequately clean the outside of the cantaloupe,” says Detwiler, an associate teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University and author of Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions.
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What happens if algorithms get the customer wrong

The report from New York University, Columbia University and Northeastern University researchers shows that such customer profiles can be riddled with errors.